Why require every ploughman to make his own plough?
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It looks like there was a church tax ("plough-alms") levied on farmers at the start of the season ("Plough Sunday"). This involved everyone bringing out their ploughshares to church, and then the church sending out collectors to get a penny from everyone who brought one.
Despite the tithe going to the church, this was a legal obligation. From the Laws of King Edmound I:
- A tithe we enjoin to every Christian man by his Christendom and churchscot, and Rome-feoh, and plough-alms. And if any one will not do so, let him be excommunicated.
From the laws of Alfred, Guthrum, and Edward the Elder:
- If any one withhold tithes, let him pay lah-slit among the Danes, wite among the English. If any one withhold Rom-feoh, let him pay lah-slit among the Danes, wite among the English. If any one discharge not light-scot, let him pay lah-slit among the Danes, wite among the English. If any one give not plough-alms, let him pay lah-slit among the Danes, wite among the English. If any one deny any divine dues, let him pay lah-slit among the Danes, wite among the English. ...
It seems there was great concern among law-writers about enforcing this tithe.
So its possible that borrowing someone else's plough rather than owning your own was seen as an attempt to avoid the plough-alms.
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